A car wash services 200 customers in a 4-hour span on a lovely Saturday afternoon. The car wash employs 5 washers at $6 per hour. An appropriate measure of productivity is:

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Productivity can be measured as the output per unit of input. Here, the output is the number of cars washed, and the input is the cost of labor. The total cost of labor is 5 washers * $6/hour * 4 hours = $120. The productivity is 200 cars / $120 = 1.67 cars per dollar, which rounds to 1.7 cars/$.

A Car Wash Services 200 Customers in a 4-Hour Span